Jeff Sessions is by all accounts a good man, but as attorney general he was hopelessly weak. Even so, it is difficult not to feel sorry for him when you see just how thoroughly he was railroaded over something so transparently false and contrived. The entire case against Sessions was that he failed to disclose two routine meet-and-greets with the Russian ambassador, the sort of encounters countless people in Washington had. But that was not what Sessions had actually been asked. He was asked whether he had been in contact with Russian officials about the 2016 election. He said no, because he had not. Then, as this newly released letter shows, Senators Leahy and Franken complained to Comey about his testimony, and the FBI promptly opened an investigation into Sessions. The whole thing was totally contrived from beginning to end. Yet the media will never tell the truth, Wikipedia remains riddled with lies about it, and history will sadly remember Jeff Sessions as the man who “lied about his contacts with Russia,” rather than as one of the earliest victims of a grotesquely corrupt political operation.